The College of Education/Al-Qurna at the University of Basrah discussed a Master's thesis in the Department of Arabic Language by the student Hajar Ali Hashem, titled "The Image of Iraqi Society in the Novels of Warid Badr Al-Salim."

The Master's thesis, titled "The Image of Iraqi Society in the Novels of Warid Badr Al-Salim," aimed to elucidate the image of Iraqi society as manifested in the author's fictional corpus, and to uncover the cultural, social, and political representations that contributed to shaping it.

The study addressed a number of phenomena that characterized the Iraqi reality, including violence, marginalization, exclusion, shame, authority, and wars, as well as crises of identity, kidnapping, migration, and the impacts they left on both the individual and society.

The study adopted the cultural approach in analyzing the novelistic texts and eliciting their significance, concluding that the novels of Warid Badr Al-Salim presented a profound vision of the transformations witnessed by Iraqi society, expressing its suffering and anxieties in light of contemporary social and political changes